From the November 1994 Issue A Decent Man, but Fate Bit Him in the Leg R D Laing: A Biography By Adrian Laing LR
From the November 1989 Issue Compliments to Author Superself: The Hidden Powers Within Ourselves By Ian Wilson LR
From the October 1992 Issue All Done with Magnets and Pieces of String The Paranormal: Beyond Sensory Science By Percy Seymour LR
From the February 1993 Issue The Problem of Boredom in America The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer By Brian Masters LR
From the July 1989 Issue Murder Mile Soho: A History of London's Most Colourful Neighbourhood By Judith Summers LR
From the September 1988 Issue Shy, But Not Cock-Shaw Bernard Shaw: The Search for Love, 1856–1898 By Michael Holroyd
From the April 1988 Issue The Author Has Not Yet Read My Masterpiece Success Stories: Literature and the Media in England, 1950-1959 By Harry Ritchie LR
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
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